Turn off your phone (after you read this blog post of course). As I write this I can’t help but hear Derek Zoolander ask me in disgust: “Turn off my phone?!” Derek’s response from the year 2000 is even more aggressive and significant today. Yes. We need regular designated time away from the noise. Instagram, […]

Be on the same page with your significant other. I am not a relationship expert but there seems to be a very consistent pattern with high achievers when it comes to their significant other: Successful couples are very intentional about making time for each other. This generally includes: 1) Weekly date night. This should generally […]

What do you want to do with your life? Teach special education? Become a strength and conditioning coach at a university? Be an orthopedic surgeon? Become a successful trial attorney? Invest in real estate, retire early and travel the world? Whatever it is you want to do, odds are someone else has done it before […]

There is a misconception that in order to truly focus on building the business, the relationship, taking care of the children, loving your family, or winning the client, we need to lose sleep, compromise healthy eating habits, and constantly be panicked and flustered. It means we care because we are “sacrificing” ourselves. But last time […]

We hear about setting healthy boundaries with others but what actions do we take to set boundaries for ourselves? I struggle with this quite a bit. I would find myself staying up late on a weeknight, sleeping in longer than I should and justify having a cocktail on a Tuesday because I was “networking.” We […]

Keep a journal or something to scribble on wherever you go. If that sounds inconvenient, use your notes app or email yourself (I email myself daily when thoughts or to-do items pop into my head). Always having something to put our thoughts down on helps us in a cornucopia of ways: 1) It takes a […]

My whole life I have been encouraged to find a job that I love and to “follow my passion.” However, in my experience, I’ve had more flexibility, purpose, joy, and overall happiness by focusing on honing my skills in a specific career area. The better I am at what I do, the more I am […]

Stuff happens that we don’t like and don’t plan for. It’s not fun. Sometimes it feels like there is no way out and no way to explain why something is happening. Why do bad things happen to good people? Rather than focus on all that went wrong, focus on what good is coming out of […]

Our calendars fill up rapidly making it difficult to set time aside for ourselves. We end up having our weekends filled up before Tuesday. Do you experience this too? In order to reflect on the trajectory of your life and where you want to go it’s important to set an appointment with yourself to be […]

Put your phone away. Look around you and be present in the moment. Our smartphones are phenomenal devices. We have little computers in our pockets that can tell us where we can find the nearest hip coffee shop, reactions to President Trump’s latest tweet, and the wedding photos of your Facebook friend you haven’t seen […]